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JenaU 32 |
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JenaU 32: Jena, Thüringer Universitäts - und Landesbibliothek, MS 32 OVERVIEW Size: 435 x 290, 282 paper folios, no index, modern pencil foliation. No blank staves- like other south-German sources this manuscript uses only the required number of staves per music transmitted. The height dimensions allow for a maximum of 11 staves. The manuscript can be fully closed with two leather straps on the right-hand side. Scribe: One scribe. Place and Brief History: Southern Germany. The manuscript was made most likely for the use of the court chapel of Frederick the Wise, Duke of Saxony. Date: ca. 1500. Covers and Decoration: Greyish brown tooled leather on boards. Folio 1v is adorned with painted and multi-coloured motifs at the bottom and a painted stylised K at the beginning of the discantus; otherwise the inked calligraphic initials in most of the source are rudimentary. For the last mass in the collection - an Anonymous Missa Sine nomine (ff. 264v-280r) - the spaces left for initials have not been completed. Other examples of this include the Anonymous Missa Petite camusette (ff. 77v-95r) Literature: Charles Hamm & Herbert Kellman (eds), Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550, Renaissance Manuscript Studies I, vol. I, American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler-Verlag, Neuhausen-Stuttgart, 1979, p. 296-297. Jürgen Heidrich. Die Deutschen Chorbücher aus der Hofkapelle Friedrichs des Weisen: Ein Beitrag zur mitteldeutschen geistlichen Musikpraxis um 1500. Collection d'études musicologiques/Sammlung musikwissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen 84. Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 1993, pp.129-57. Contents:
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